"REGULATION (EC) No 1924/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods"

Regulation1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on nutrition and health claims made on foods was re-published in its corrected form on 18 January 2007 (OJ No. L12, 18.1.2007, p.3) and will apply from 1 July 2007. This is the first piece of specific legislation to deal with nutrition and health claims and aims to provide a higher level of consumer protection as well as harmonise legislation across the EU to facilitate intra-Community trade.
The regulation will control nutrition and health claims by means of positive lists of authorised claims that can be made on food together with the criteria a product must meet to use them. The annex of the regulation contains the list of permitted nutrition claims and the regulation puts in place processes for the compilation of the list of authorised health claims. It also requires the European Commission to establish nutrient profiles, as criteria that foods must meet to make claims.
EU regulations are directly applicable in Member States and this regulation will apply from 1 July 2007.

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REFERENCES
http://www.food.gov.uk/consultations/consulteng/2007/claims2007eng

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/l_012/l_01220070118en00030018.pdf

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